Hello Denny and Paula,  Paula, you can be pleased and should also be

grateful to the Friends long ago (maybe 1940 or so) who created

your Columbus meeting.  Nothing like this happened in Salem, even

though it was once a major Quaker center.  Once the Hicksite meeting

was laid down, it was never replaced.  It is great to learn that Friends

from Lake Erie Y.M. are among those on Quaker Quaker.

     Hicksite Quakerism never entirely disappeaared in Ohio.  In

Quaker geography,  the southwest corner of the state has always

been entirely different from the rest.  The FGC meetings in that

area belonged (and still do belong) to Indiana Y.M. (FGC), now

renamed Ohio Valley Y.M. 

Denny, it's hard to explain the terrible decline of Quakerism in

Ohio.  Perhaps the four-way split, with Friends from all over

(even England for the second split in the 1850's) coming to watch,

helps to explain things.  The Civil War no doubt did much to

destroy Ohio Quakerism,  The Progressives were more important

among Friends in Ohio than elsewhsre.  Once the Civil War was

over, the Ohio Progressives pretty much disintegrated---as if

Quakers no longer had any work to do in the world.  Many scholars

believe that the influx of non-Friends  into our Society in the

post-Civil-War years did much to explain how most Friends

 became a species of evangelical Protestants, much like the others.

        For an overview of Quakerism during the 1800's,  I urge all

readers here to read the Autobiography of Allen Jay, just now

published by Friends United Press,

       Blessings,     Jeremy Mott